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1:00

there. You are listening to the Lazy

1:02

Genius podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm

1:04

here to help you be a genius

1:06

about the things that matter and lazy

1:08

about the things that don't. Today's

1:10

episode 358, how to kindly and efficiently get where

1:12

you need to go. This

1:17

episode was very unique to Create

1:19

because I could not quite

1:21

figure out what it was. We did

1:23

an episode three years ago, episode 223, the lazy genius gets out

1:25

the door and

1:28

I love that episode. It is really

1:30

helpful in breaking down the main

1:32

reasons. We all have such a

1:34

hard time leaving our homes.

1:37

Is that what this episode is? Not quite.

1:40

But in order to figure out what it

1:42

was, I had to go live on Instagram

1:44

and spend a few minutes processing this episode

1:46

with about 250 of you who happened

1:48

to be on Instagram at that moment. Hilariously, Jenna

1:50

Fisher was in the comments too. And

1:53

with her and everyone else's help, we

1:55

came up with frankly, multiple podcast episode

1:57

ideas. But I also think we landed on

1:59

one. what this one is. We

2:02

all have places we need to go, right?

2:04

And we wanna get there, but

2:06

we want to kindly and efficiently

2:08

get there. Now

2:11

that looks different for everyone though, right? Sometimes

2:13

we're taking other people with us, we're going

2:15

alone. Sometimes it is a routine leaving like

2:17

every day. And then other times the chaos

2:19

of getting where we need to go is

2:21

because it's a place we've never gone

2:24

before. And so we don't really know what we need. Sometimes

2:27

we might have our own transportation or

2:29

we use public transportation. And

2:31

then it's also not just about leaving,

2:33

right? We also wanna come home well.

2:35

Like sometimes leaving creates more chaos and

2:37

then we have to physically and metaphorically

2:39

clean up that chaos when we're back

2:41

home again. It would be nice if

2:43

that part was avoidable too. All that

2:45

to say, this is obviously a very relevant

2:47

topic. The all caps energy of the comments

2:50

during the Instagram Live proves that we all

2:52

have places we need to go. And

2:55

because you are lazy geniuses, you want

2:57

to get there, not just

2:59

efficiently, but kindly too. So

3:02

I'm gonna break this episode down into

3:05

three sections. First, we're going to talk

3:07

about your expectations related to

3:09

getting where you need to go. Second,

3:11

we'll talk about how to kindly do that. And

3:14

then third, we're gonna talk about how

3:16

to efficiently do that. Do not skip

3:18

straight to part three, please. Part three

3:21

will not be as effective in your life without one

3:23

and two first. Remember, lazy

3:25

geniuses go in the right order.

3:27

And starting with efficiency is

3:29

rarely our best bet. As much as we would

3:31

like for the opposite to be true. We have

3:33

to start with expectations and kindness first. So

3:36

let's jump into part one. Let's

3:38

talk about expectations. Expectations

3:41

are slippery little buggers. We

3:43

think that our main

3:46

organizational priority is

3:49

to manage our time. But

3:51

a huge part of time

3:53

management is actually managing our

3:55

expectations. If we manage

3:57

our time, if we plan for how we're...

4:00

going to get out the door and

4:02

get where we're going without any awareness

4:04

of our expectations around that process, we

4:06

will absolutely get

4:08

frustrated. Rarely do our plans

4:10

happen the way we hope they will. Some

4:13

might say the rate is closer to never, not

4:15

rarely, especially if you have other humans

4:18

involved. And rather than accept

4:20

that managing expectations is part of

4:22

the deal and that

4:24

it's a skill to develop, we just

4:26

get mad. We get resentful or frustrated

4:28

or frazzled or we start yelling at

4:31

somebody or we forget important

4:33

things because we've now activated our lizard

4:35

survival brain and it's just like all

4:37

straight up chaos. That

4:39

chaos might be outward or inward,

4:42

but regardless, it's there. The

4:44

skill of managing your

4:47

expectations is highly valuable.

4:50

If learning to pivot is more important than

4:52

learning to plan, managing your expectations is more

4:55

important than managing your time. Planning

4:57

and time management are both awesome skills,

4:59

but without the balance and importance of

5:01

pivoting and managing expectations, you're just going

5:04

to move closer and closer to being

5:06

a frustrated robot. So

5:09

the first step in kindly and efficiently

5:11

getting where you need to go is

5:13

to manage your expectations. If

5:15

you expect that you're going to get up

5:17

earlier than you normally do, that all of

5:20

your kids, if you have them, will exit

5:22

their beds in a timely manner with nary

5:24

a reminder that the dishwasher will get emptied

5:26

and the lunches will get made, that you

5:28

will have time to make your own lunch

5:30

to take to work instead of depending on

5:32

your emergency granola bar, that everyone will locate

5:34

their shoes and keys and important signed documents

5:36

without confusion or delay, that you will somehow

5:39

have time to quietly drink a cup of

5:41

coffee or journal or do yoga or hit

5:43

the gym before anyone needs you, that breakfast

5:45

will get cleaned up before you walk out

5:47

the door. And all of this before somewhere

5:50

in the eight o'clock range, if

5:52

you expect all of that to happen and

5:54

to go down easy on a regular basis

5:56

without intensely thoughtful systems,

5:59

you've been building for years and

6:01

likely children who are naturally amenable

6:03

to such expectations, which is rarely

6:05

the case, you're going to be

6:07

disappointed every single morning. You

6:10

will be disappointed and frustrated and harried

6:12

and scattered and annoyed that you or

6:14

your people cannot get it together. You

6:16

should be able to do A, B and C

6:18

and D and E and Z before you get out

6:21

the door. But I'm

6:23

not sure you should. I

6:25

don't know that those expectations are reasonable. And

6:27

even if they are, do you

6:30

have the energy to fulfill them all? Remember

6:33

one of our lazy genius mantras,

6:35

match your expectations to the energy

6:37

you're willing to give. If

6:40

you do not have the energy to wake up

6:42

early and work out, if you do not have

6:44

the energy to be patient with your children and

6:47

all of their childlike chaos, if you do not

6:49

have the energy to do your makeup with the

6:51

care you wish you had time for or think

6:53

that you should have time for. If

6:55

you do not have the energy to delegate

6:57

where appropriate and help your partner or your

7:00

kids see what needs doing so you're not

7:02

doing everything, if you do not have the

7:04

energy, especially in the

7:06

morning, to catalog everything that everyone

7:08

needs, that you expect that all

7:10

of that will still happen, disaster,

7:14

emotional, logistical disaster.

7:17

And if that happens day after day after

7:19

day, no wonder you are turning to Google

7:21

for help with a morning routine. And

7:25

spoiler alert, the first search result

7:28

for morning routine has 21 steps

7:31

for the best morning routine. You're

7:33

not ready. I'm going to speed through these

7:35

real quick. These 21 things that

7:38

are great for your morning routine according to the

7:40

internet that you just frustratingly turn to. And I'm

7:42

talking the top choice. Ready?

7:45

Get a good night's sleep. Avoid the snooze

7:47

button. Give yourself enough time to get to work.

7:50

Take a full glass of water. Enjoy

7:52

a cup of coffee or tea. Prepare

7:54

a healthy breakfast. Take advantage of self-care.

7:57

Sit in a quick workout. Say positive

7:59

affirmations. Meditate by taking deep breaths.

8:01

Prioritize important tasks. Listen to motivational

8:04

music. Call a loved one. Subscribe

8:06

to a podcast. Perform an act

8:08

of kindness. Spend time on a

8:10

hobby. Think creatively. Read an industry

8:12

blog post. Do a crossword puzzle.

8:14

Take a moment to stretch and

8:16

perform a retrospective. That

8:19

was the first search result. Now,

8:22

I'm not dumb. I'm not intentionally baiting

8:24

you here. I know that this author doesn't expect anyone

8:26

to do all 21 of these things every single morning.

8:29

But still, many

8:32

of our mornings lead

8:34

to getting where we need to go, even

8:37

if it's at our desk at home because we still work from

8:39

home. And this

8:41

list, this has nothing to do

8:43

with actually getting out the door or

8:45

doing anything for anyone else, right?

8:48

It's just a list of all the things that

8:50

you should be doing for your own morning

8:53

routine, which generally leads to getting out the

8:55

door. This is why we are frustrated,

8:57

you guys. Our expectations

8:59

are so off, partly

9:02

because the internet sets us up to think

9:04

we're supposed to do a retrospective every morning

9:06

and not hit the DAGOM snooze button. What

9:08

kind of anarchy is this? It

9:11

is not your fault that your

9:14

expectations are high or even

9:16

so high that they're out of whack. The

9:18

messages that you have received about

9:21

what your morning should look like for

9:23

years and years are bogus messages. Your

9:26

expectations have been tampered with in

9:28

a wildly unrealistic way, and

9:30

it is time to shift them. Match

9:32

your expectations to the energy you're willing to give.

9:35

Even match your expectations to the energy you

9:38

have today. Your energy will

9:40

change from day to day, thanks to

9:42

hormones. So match your expectations of your

9:44

morning or whenever you're trying to get

9:46

where you need to go to the

9:48

energy available to you. That

9:51

is the first step. Now

9:54

let's talk about how to access kindness as you get where you

9:56

need to go. Your expectations

9:58

do matter, so create kindness. ones.

10:01

And if you forget to or you

10:03

get a little too big for your expectation britches,

10:06

manage your expectations kindly when they go on

10:08

that. And I think the most effective way to

10:10

do this is by being

10:12

grounded. You breathe, you

10:15

access kindness within yourself so

10:18

that you can have kindness for yourself. If you're

10:20

running late and you're scattered and you

10:23

find yourself raising your voice to your

10:25

teenage son because he

10:27

is moving slower than I think frankly

10:29

a teenage boy, remember that

10:32

you very likely would rather stay connected

10:34

to your kid and be a little

10:36

late than be on time

10:38

and mad at each other. What

10:41

matters more? Now sometimes

10:43

being on time is a really big

10:45

deal and you have to do your

10:47

relational repair in the car. I'm not

10:49

naive. I love being on time like

10:51

a lot. But to prioritize timeliness over

10:53

connection with our people will

10:56

turn getting out the door real

10:58

sour real fast especially if it's

11:00

happening repeatedly. Dare

11:02

I say it being grounded is better

11:04

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11:06

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11:09

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11:11

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11:13

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every home. Okay, now that you're paying attention, not

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just to your expectations, but to how you manage them and

15:08

you're naming the importance of groundedness and

15:10

kindness as you try and get where you need to

15:12

go, you will be better

15:15

equipped to do it efficiently. I

15:17

will shout it from the rooftops for the rest of my

15:19

working days. Efficiency is awesome,

15:21

but it cannot come

15:24

first. Just like you can't

15:26

organize stuff before you prioritize and essentialize,

15:28

you can't truly be efficient before

15:31

you are aware of your expectations and you're

15:33

kind about the whole thing. Efficiency

15:35

is not a solo act, y'all. Efficiency,

15:37

I mean, we know what

15:40

it means, but it's basically like doing the

15:42

most you can with as little as possible,

15:44

right? We've already touched on the most you

15:46

can part with your expectations and you'll be

15:48

more satisfied with as little as possible if

15:50

you're kind first. So, I mean,

15:53

expectations and kindness are like practically in the

15:55

definition. So now that we know that, let's

15:57

Discuss how we can efficiently get where we're going.

16:00

Because. That cannot come first. I.

16:03

Want you to think about getting? We need to

16:05

go. In three phases.

16:07

Okay, There. Is the pre exit.

16:10

The exit and the post exit. You

16:12

can also think about this. in terms

16:15

of urgency. the exit is probably

16:17

the most urgent part. Pre exit is

16:19

where there's no urgency at. That.

16:21

Might be like the day before you have to

16:24

get where you need to go or a couple

16:26

of hours before. whatever that the pre x it

16:28

doesn't really have urgency and then the post exit.

16:30

His. Post urgency, but you're. My.

16:33

Probably the law hyped up from the

16:35

urgency. So as we talk about assistant

16:37

like getting where you need to go,

16:39

it's not just about when you leave.

16:42

It's about what happens before you leave when

16:44

it's not urgent yet and after you've list.

16:48

And what you can noticeably. How.

16:50

It went are you can kindly a just

16:52

what you might do next time Okay, Okay,

16:55

let's start with you are in a

16:57

pre exit time or the pre urgency

16:59

time. Think about when you most commonly

17:01

need to get where you need to

17:04

go again. For many of us it's

17:06

just every weekday morning. You know you're

17:08

getting to work. Kids are going to

17:10

school your beginning your day. When.

17:12

Is the time. The you

17:15

are thinking about that next exit but you

17:17

don't feel urgent about it. Is.

17:19

Is night before. Is a

17:21

between six and seven am because you're stay at home

17:23

and your kids don't go to preschool until nine. See

17:25

that a little more time to ease and getting ready

17:27

to go in the morning. When.

17:30

Is the time that you're thinking about

17:32

even the tiniest bit about the next

17:34

exit but you're not urgent about a

17:36

yet. Okay, So once

17:38

you name that that time, what can

17:40

you do during that time? To

17:42

help the exit. Work. More

17:45

efficiently. And I would

17:47

say to start to same one thing

17:49

what is one thing you can do

17:51

during your pre exit non urgent time

17:53

that can help ease the urgency. Of

17:55

the actual. exit maybe you

17:58

can think about what use causes

18:00

the chaos or you

18:02

consider something that makes you feel grounded and

18:04

like yourself which helps

18:06

you manage the chaos and you add

18:09

that into your routine. So

18:11

you can take something away, add something in

18:14

or adjust something that's already there that

18:17

you can either decide or

18:19

do before leaving becomes urgent.

18:22

One of the things I do to help me get

18:25

where I need to go in my pre-exit time is

18:27

I wipe off the kitchen counters before I go to

18:30

bed. So Annie is in

18:32

charge of clearing the dinner dishes and then

18:34

my husband Kaz he almost always cleans up

18:36

the rest. But one thing he rarely does

18:38

is wipe off the

18:40

kitchen counters. He clears them and he

18:43

washes the dishes but he doesn't notice a

18:46

shiny counter like I do. That's

18:48

less of a priority for him so it's not

18:50

a regular part of his dinner cleanup routine. But

18:53

when I come into the kitchen in the morning to

18:55

set out the kids lunch boxes and get stuff out

18:58

for me to either make their lunch or for them to make their

19:00

own and the counter is

19:02

dirty from the night before it

19:04

escalates my urgency. It

19:06

is frustrating and a little gross and

19:09

then sometimes depending on the day it makes

19:11

me resent Kaz rather than be

19:14

genuinely grateful that he tends to the kitchen

19:16

every single day. Now he

19:18

does it differently than I do though and that's okay.

19:21

So rather than obsess about that

19:23

difference and micromanage

19:25

that difference I just

19:27

clean the counters myself before I go to bed. And

19:30

then when I wake up the next morning to do

19:32

the morning routine with the kids which is my area

19:34

of labor in our family I do the morning it

19:37

makes everything start off so much better. So

19:40

wiping off the counter is one of my pre-exit

19:42

things. Another one

19:44

is that I plan my next day the

19:46

night before. It takes anywhere from 60 seconds

19:48

to maybe 5 or 10 minutes depending on

19:50

my urgency my schedule how tired I am

19:52

but naming what I have going on and

19:55

deciding things like when I'm going to take a

19:58

shower when I'm going to have my coffee. What

20:00

I need to take with me when

20:02

I leave. Deciding all of that before

20:04

I feel urgent is huge.

20:08

So I make my own

20:10

exit strategy when I plan the day.

20:13

It sounds more detailed than it actually is,

20:15

but really I'm just like, okay, when are we showering today? What

20:18

do I have to do? I tend to do that.

20:20

I have early carpool, so I'll take my coffee with me

20:22

because I don't want to wait till I get home because

20:24

I'll have a headache, but I don't want to

20:26

get up early and drink it before I have

20:28

to do all the morning things because I have carpool. Because

20:31

my days also are different pretty much every

20:33

single weekday because of what the kids have

20:36

going on, when it's my time to drive

20:38

carpool, what meetings I have, how dirty my

20:40

hair is. I need to

20:42

plan my day every night before. I

20:45

just don't have a lot of consistency

20:47

in what's required in the morning. And

20:50

that is a huge part of what makes

20:52

my mornings feel more efficient because decisions have

20:55

been made before they become

20:57

urgent. So think

20:59

about what yours might be. Think

21:02

about what you can do as part

21:04

of your pre-exit when

21:06

you're not yet feeling urgent, that

21:09

you can decide now that

21:11

can make the urgent exiting feel a little easier.

21:14

It reminds me of one of our phrases, tend

21:17

to the necessary before it

21:19

becomes urgent. Now

21:22

let's talk about the exit itself. This

21:25

is where I implore you to use

21:28

the lazy genius principle, decide once. Decide

21:32

once about something that always

21:34

happens every morning and see how

21:36

that single choice might help getting where you need

21:38

to go a little bit easier.

21:41

One thing we do at our house is my kids,

21:43

they do not have a hot breakfast. And

21:46

if they do, they make it themselves. Almost

21:48

every single morning, and I mean this, every

21:51

single morning, all three of my kids,

21:53

they pull out a piece of chocolate chip pumpkin bread

21:55

from the freezer, and that's their breakfast.

21:57

Sam gets his milk, Annie gets her juice. Ben

22:00

sometimes makes a fried egg to go with his

22:02

pumpkin bread. That's what they have. I

22:05

make a giant pan of pumpkin bread every couple of weeks.

22:07

I cut it up into squares. I bag it up and

22:09

I put it in the freezer. Breakfast

22:11

is not really an urgent part

22:13

of our morning routine to

22:15

get where we need to go because my

22:18

kids, funny enough, decided once that they pretty

22:20

much just eat pumpkin bread. And

22:22

if they don't, they eat something

22:24

else from the freezer, like pancakes or

22:26

waffles or cooked bacon that they just

22:28

microwave. I do not

22:30

cook breakfast. No one's making breakfast.

22:33

That single decision makes a huge

22:35

difference for us. Is it the

22:37

decision you should make? No, but

22:40

it works great for us. Now,

22:43

you might think, well, what about the egg? What

22:45

about the fried egg? Or what about the breakfast

22:47

dishes left behind by the frying of the egg

22:49

or just the kids eating in general? This is

22:51

a fair question, and it's another decide once. Recently,

22:54

we divided up dish duty among

22:56

the three kids because it got

22:58

too annoying to constantly decide whose turn it

23:00

was to clean up a meal, like whose

23:02

day. I was talking to my

23:04

friend Hannah, and she shared that with her three kids, they

23:07

divided up the dishes by meal. So

23:09

a different kid cleans up the breakfast dishes all

23:12

the time, not just their own, everyone's. Another

23:15

kid does lunch, another kid does dinner. We started

23:17

doing that and it is awesome.

23:21

It has worked so well for us. And

23:23

guess who got breakfast? Ben, the

23:26

fried egg maker. He's also

23:28

the last kid at home every single week.

23:30

He leaves last because his brother,

23:32

even though they go to the same school,

23:35

has before school activities, three out of the

23:37

five mornings. And any school starts

23:39

sooner than the boys do. So Ben has always lasted

23:41

home. And Ben also has

23:43

more variety with his breakfast than the other

23:45

two do. So he cleans up breakfast. Decisions

23:48

like that, that you decide one time,

23:51

and then you let them ride until

23:53

they don't serve you anymore are

23:55

incredibly successful, and relatively

23:58

simple ways to make your morning. or

24:00

getting where you need to go more efficient. I

24:03

am doing more with less because

24:06

I'm not having to make breakfast or clean up

24:08

breakfast. Decide once took care of that.

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P.S. Ben is a morning person and deeply

24:13

responsible. He's a 73 year old poet

24:16

who like knows how to get stuff done. So

24:18

he is the best child to

24:20

handle morning things because he's not dragging like other children

24:22

would. There's no way I would give the

24:25

morning dishes to one of my other

24:27

kids. So, you know, just for realism's

24:29

sake, there you go. All

24:31

right. So I want you to think about a part

24:33

of your own process and

24:35

getting where you need to go and think

24:38

about where you can apply. Decide once.

24:41

Where can you make one decision one

24:43

time about one thing and then you just let

24:46

it go? If

24:48

you can do that, it will absolutely help

24:50

with the efficiency part, even just one thing.

24:53

Okay. So that's the exit exit. Finally, the

24:55

post exit. We will

24:58

not always have an efficient and

25:00

kind exit. It

25:02

is a tough thing to have happen

25:04

every single day because we are humans

25:06

and likely live with humans and life

25:09

is often a mess. You know, I want

25:11

to be a mom who doesn't get annoyed at

25:13

her kid for making the carpool wait, but

25:16

I do. I do. Even this

25:18

morning, I get brode by

25:20

my oldest kid three out of five mornings because I'm

25:22

nagging him to get going. And I'm like, yeah, no,

25:25

no, no. He's like, bro, I get

25:27

brode all the time. I'm not great at this, but

25:30

I'm working on being more connected and

25:32

grounded and paying attention to the connections

25:34

that I have with myself and my

25:36

people than I ever have before. And

25:39

part of that happens in this post exit.

25:42

When everyone leaves or I have left, whether I'm

25:45

in the car or by myself in the house,

25:47

I will often take a breath and I'll notice

25:49

what happened. You know, did I get frustrated? What

25:51

triggered that? Did I get triggered at

25:53

all? What went well? What am

25:55

I proud of that I stayed grounded through?

25:57

I just briefly, I'm talking like. just

26:00

a couple of seconds. I just briefly notice

26:02

how kindly and efficiently see the exit

26:04

happened and either

26:07

make a note to adjust something later or

26:09

I repair any harm that my lack of

26:11

kindness caused. It's usually that one. I have

26:14

definitely been known to text my oldest an hour

26:16

after he's left to apologize for getting huffy with

26:18

him. You know, I'll text like, sorry, I lost

26:20

my cool at you this morning, but I got

26:22

caught up in being on time and I took

26:24

it out on you. And

26:27

then he hearts the message and he sends me a

26:29

thumbs up. Maybe it's an okay. And we move on,

26:31

you know, the post

26:33

exit is important for both kindness and

26:35

efficiency. Notice where you were

26:37

unkind and repair either with yourself or

26:39

someone else. And if

26:41

there was something that was just

26:43

super clunky, that could be smoother,

26:45

think about it now while you're still kind

26:47

of in the exit mode, but no longer

26:50

urgent about it. Problem solve

26:52

even for one tiny thing, especially

26:54

for one tiny thing, the

26:56

small changes are where the magic happens anyway. So

26:59

to recap how to kindly and efficiently

27:01

get where you need to go, start

27:04

with managing your expectations,

27:07

reasonable expectations for your process

27:09

of exiting. And remember that

27:12

your expectations might need to

27:14

change day to day, depending

27:16

on your own energy. More

27:19

than managing your time, manage

27:21

your expectations of your time. That

27:23

will help set you up for a more reasonable,

27:26

grounded exit than if you ignore

27:28

your expectations altogether. Then

27:30

access kindness by remembering

27:33

that staying grounded is better than staying

27:35

on task. Being grounded helps you stay

27:37

on task. Be kind

27:39

and be yourself, not succumbing to the

27:41

robot energy that mornings and exits often

27:44

bring. And then to be

27:46

efficient, think about your pre-exit when you're

27:48

not urgent, the exit when you are

27:50

urgent, and the post exit when

27:52

you see how your urgency made things better,

27:54

or there's something to adjust. Be

27:57

efficient only after. managing

28:00

your expectations and accessing

28:02

kindness towards yourself and others. And don't

28:04

forget to side wins. And

28:06

that is how to kindly and efficiently get where you need to

28:08

go. Before we go, let's

28:10

celebrate the lazy genius of the week. This week

28:12

it is Brittany Dickmeyer who has a great tip

28:15

for getting little kids out the door. We

28:17

all know going out the door with kids is

28:19

hard. When mine were little, I found that even

28:22

if I was totally organized with my stuff, I

28:24

always managed to have a straggler kid or someone

28:26

who wandered back upstairs right as we were trying

28:28

to leave. The solution was I traced their hands

28:30

on their favorite color paper and had them decorate

28:33

them and take them on the back door. When

28:36

we were leaving, I would yell hands on hands

28:38

and they'd all go stand with their hands on the back

28:40

door until it was time to all head out together. No

28:43

more wandering children. This is seriously adorable,

28:45

Brittany. Wrangling tiny humans is

28:47

a particularly challenging job and this makes

28:49

it sweet and fun. Thank you

28:51

so much for sharing and congratulations on being the lazy

28:54

genius of the week. This episode

28:56

is hosted by me, Kendra Adachi, an

28:58

executive produced by Kendra Adachi, Jenna Fisher

29:00

like super legit this time because she

29:02

was active in those Instagram comments and

29:04

Angela Kinsey. The Lazy Genius podcast is

29:07

enthusiastically part of the Office Ladies Network.

29:09

Special thanks to Leah Jarvis for weekly production. Thanks

29:11

y'all for listening and until next time be a

29:14

genius about the things that matter and lazy about

29:16

the things that don't. I'm Kendra and I'll see

29:18

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